Transatlantic bondage slavery and freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico

This groundbreaking volume addresses the enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive archival research, Transatlant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Acosta Corniel, Lissette, 1977- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : State University of New York [2024]
Colección:SUNY series, Afro-Latinx futures
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Spanish slave legislation : from slavery to abolition in Spain and the Americas / Aurelia Martín Casares
  • Legislation and slavery from a local perspective : slave in the municipal ordinances of Extremadura, 1500-1800 / Rocío Periáñez Gomez
  • Slavery and the pursuit of freedom in sixteenth-century Santo Domingo / Richard Lee Titus
  • African slavery and laws in La Española : the beginnings of modern colonization in the Americas (1520s-1540s) / Anthony R. Stevens-Acevedo
  • Black women in sixteenth-century Santo Domingo : free, enslaved, founders, and explorers / Lissette Acosta Corniel
  • Transgressing social, gender, and sexual norms in colonial Santo Domingo (1716-1719) / Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
  • Fostering a sense of community in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico : the godparenthood of enslaved infants, children, and adult in San Juan, 1672-1706 / David M. Stark
  • A tradition of contraband : secreting and silencing the illegal importation and exploitation of enslaved Africans in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico / Jorge L. Chinea